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My hand no longer trembled out of fear, but out of anticipation. I knew I was addicted to the rush it provided, to the release it provided from the emotional mess I had become, but I didn't care. It wasn't drugs. It was just a few cuts on my arm.
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Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
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Today I share about my addiction and recovery journey as often as possible because I don't want to die all alone in a dark closet, shrouded in shame beside the decomposing skeletons I tried so desperately to hide. I want to live.
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I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.
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Any time you see the word 'detox' someone is trying to sell you absolute waste-of-time crap. Your
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These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.
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I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.
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The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
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Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.
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With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana - the fear of Fear itself.
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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It appears she has taken an exorbitant quantity of heroin.' 'Oh dear.' I pushed my plate aside. 'What condition did she have to take it for?' 'Boredom.' He stood up. 'She has so little to do with her time since she came out of prison.' I
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She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
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What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
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The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.
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I quit! I feel so much better, as if anything is possible. I'm free!
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When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.
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dropping out until become empty
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You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.
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The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.
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There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.
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I began asking myself just what my high was about. What did I do when I was high that I didn't do when I was sober? What was wrong that heroin fixed?
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The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
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Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
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I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.
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Part of me wanted to talk myself out of what I was doing. I knew there was no coming back from the feelings I was allowing back, but I didn't really care. It was a crippling addiction and I didn't want the cure.
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One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?
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Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.
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Addiction is a revolt of the soul.
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That's part of the insidiousness of addiction, I thought. You remember the depth and blackness of the hole you were in and not the strength it took to pull yourself out. "I
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I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).
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I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
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The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours.
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I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.
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I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.
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Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.
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Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.
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I watch a lot of TV, I drink a lot of coffee, but you know what's really addictive? Heroin.
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Cocaine, yeahhhhhhh!!!!!
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Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn't the culprit, my fears were.
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Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.
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Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.
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Patrick Carnes wrote an apt description of the addict's behavior: "The addict substitutes a sick relationship to an event or a process for a healthy relationship with others. The addict's relationship with a mood-altering experience becomes central to his life" (Carnes 2001, 14).
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If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.
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It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need. He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction.
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Too many codeine pills,
Too many nights of cold chills
Too many weak-handed deals
Too many lives, the addict steals
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Addiction does not respect love of life.
P.C.M. Hermans
September 28, 2016
Babaji
Amen
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I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle or something, and he can't get out of it. You shut him down long enough so at least his body can start working for itself again.
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Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
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The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.
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It's all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system
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Anything that inspires addiction or obsession - substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy - is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.
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The satisfaction of a special Pninian craving.
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Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.
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Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
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I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.
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Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body
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I'm addicted to placebos.
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No coffee either, caffeine withdrawal the real tragedy here.
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I've been in rehabs with hardcore heroin addicts who say, 'I've kicked the heroin, but I can't let go of the tobacco.' I haven't smoked a cigarette in a long time. I like being clean now.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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- then more Losses, with the Substance seeming like the only consolation against the pain of the mounting Losses, and of course you're in Denial about it being the Substance that's causing the very Losses it's consoling you about -
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Denial, anger, acceptance
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Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one's addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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When you lost someone to addiction- and he had lost many- you lost something very precious. You watched them fall. You waited for them to hit the bottom. It was a terrible wait.
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Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.
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Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It's death on the installment plan.
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I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.
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Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox
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The money buys the drugs, the drugs work harder and harder to trick your blackened dopamine receptors into giving a damn about living. At some point you make a choice: fight your need the rest of your goddamned long-suffering life, or fill your need until it disappears into the grave with you.
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I've been using narcotics for 20 years.
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I'm like a junky without an addiction.
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Reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction is rarely conquered alone.
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When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible.
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Full and aching and tingling and spiraling, hanging on for dear life, letting go of every other thought and focused only on one thing - let it go, let it go, let it go.
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Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
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Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
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Thank God I never hooked on anything. I never had a monkey on my back. I just wanted to self-medicate, to numb myself through liquor. It's how I dealt with life, reality, stress, change, sadness, memories. The list goes on. I was really trying to feel nothing.
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Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
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For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.
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Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.
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I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.
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At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.
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We need to separate the real rewards that give our lives meaning from the false rewards that keep us distracted and addicted. Learning to make this distinction may be the best we can do.
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Old habits die hard, and sometimes the toughest addictions to shake are the ones that control our hearts.
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Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
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That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.
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Injected, the drug that was Hop coursed through my veins. I had it back in a way I couldn't believe I'd ever managed to live without it.
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Word-sniffing ... is an addiction, like glue
or snow
sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically ... As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness ...
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Laney felt the pills he'd taken, the ones that were supposed to cushion the jet lag, drop out from under him like some kind of rotten pharmacological scaffolding.
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Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.
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Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.
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What is the largest addiction in the world? Looking good and being right!
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Well before physical dependency sets in, one of the first signs of addiction is an inability to, ironically, just say no. Now